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Professional Athlete or Investment Banker?
Mod Note (Andy): Best of Eddie, this was originally posted in August 2010. Given that today is Friday, the NFL pre-season is underway, and I had a little bit to drink last night, I thought I'd pose an existential question today. If you had a choice, would you rather be a professional athlete or an...
Interesting Situation (Work vs Study Abroad or Both)
Hi guys, I am a long-time lurker, but a first time poster. I have an interesting situation, so I wanted to seek some advice.
Matt Taibbi: You Are Overpaid And Suck
I know this guy gets some of you all riled up so I thought some of you would be interested in this particularly harsh statement: [quote]As is apparently also the case with Mitt Romney's PE business, which analysts have found often don't do much better than average if at all, the data shows more and...
The Devil's Haircut
"To paraphrase Paul Volcker, the only productive invention to come out of the banking industry over the past generation was the ATM." - Bill Gross Wow. Who pissed Bill Gross off? The PIMCO founder is known for having strong opinions, and his letters to investors are closely followed by those who...
Wall Street's Bailout Hustle
Gird your loins; Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi is on the warpath again. This time he's detailing the various methods used to generate massive profits and bonus numbers at the expense of the taxpayer, and it's a ripping good read. Grab a cup of coffee, swallow some Vicodin, and then click HERE . He...
Taibbi: Obama's Big Sellout
There's no other way to say it: Barack Obama, a once-in-a-generation political talent whose graceful conquest of America's racial dragons en route to the White House inspired the entire world, has for some reason allowed his presidency to be hijacked by sniveling, low-rent shitheads. That is the...
It's All Obama's Fault
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone's financial reporter, has pointed his guns at Barack Obama in a new investigative piece, titled "Obama's Big Sellout." As you might have gleaned from the headline, the piece is not about a White House yard sale, but the President's collusive dealings with big, bad Wall...
Fraud on Wall Street?
In the latest issue of Rolling Stone , the magazine’s financial reporter, Matt Taibbi, writes a story called “Wall Street’s Naked Swindle,” in which he claims that evidence suggests that there was massive manipulation (specifically a whole lot of naked short selling) that helped fuel the...
Taibbi Sparks Goldman Firestorm
Is Lloyd Blankfein actually Darth Vader? The scathing article published earlier this week in Rolling Stone makes a compelling case that has the web churning out conspiracy theories right and left. In case you missed it, here is the article:...
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